Azure Friday (Audio)

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman discuss the API economy and how companies must master the challenges inherent in building, maintaining, managing, and exposing APIs to participate. That's where Azure API Management can help. Azure API Management is a solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. With Azure API Management, you can take any backend system, hosted anywhere, and exp...

Rahul Bagaria joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss Azure Monitor, which now includes Log Analytics and Application Insights. Azure Monitor provides full stack monitoring tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud and on-premises resources and applications. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactiv...

Alfred Sin joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Azure Serial Console, which is now generally available in all public clouds. Serial console enables you to use an interactive shell in situations where you may be unable to SSH or RDP into your VM, which make it super-easy for troubleshooting and self-serve diagnosing of your VM.Jump To: [02:12] Demo Start For more information:Virtual Machine Serial Co...

Sharad Agrawal joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss the recently announced Azure Front Door Service, which takes your application availability global and real-time while maximizing performance by connecting you to your users using Microsoft's massive global edge network. In this session, you'll learn how to set up a Front Door for your application and the performance and reliability benefits you can ach...

Andrew Mason joins Donovan Brown to introduce Data Box Gateway and Data Box Edge, two new data network transfer solutions from Azure. They both enable easy data transfer to the cloud, with Data Box Edge providing pre-processing for fast, local results or to modify the data before upload. Jump To: [01:40] Demo Start For more information:Azure Data Box docsAzure Data Box productsAzure Data Box prici...

Mathew Dickson joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Data Box family of solutions to meet the challenge of moving data to the cloud. Azure Data Box offline devices help you transfer large amounts of data to Azure when the network isn't an option. Data Box online products act as network storage gateways to intelligently manage data between your site and Azure. Jump To: [03:40] Demo Start For more info...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how you can generate an isochrone using Azure Maps. Isochrones represent the reachable range from a given point using a set of constraints such as fuel, energy or time. These polygons can be combined with a number of features to do things like search for gas stations within a given range or find restaurants within 15 minutes given current traffic co...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to get the ISO country code for a provided IP address. Use this information to tailor your application to your customers' needs based on geographic location. Jump To: [02:10] Demo Start For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch geocoding calls using Azure Maps as well as how to get the polygon for a administrative area on a map. Batch geocoding enables a developer to pass up to 10k geocoding or reverse geocoding calls in a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. The polygon feature enables developers to get the boundaries...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch routing calls using Azure Maps as well as how to do matrix routing with a given set of origins and destinations. Batch geocoding enables developers to pass up to 1,000 routing queries with a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. For matrix routing, a developer can pass in a series of origins and...

Christian Wade joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with a way that was not previously possible. Learn how to use the aggregations feature in Power BI to enable interactive analysis over big data. For more information:Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary (Analytics)Aggregations in Power BI Desktop (Preview) docsMicrosoft Power BI - Interactive...

Michael Greene joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new set of experiences for Configuration Management in Azure, and how anyone new to modern management can discover and learn new process more quickly than before. Jump To: [01:49] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation State Configuration Overview (docs)Azure Automation overviewAzure Automation pricingAzure Automation roadmapCreate a free...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Data Factory visual tools, which enable you to iteratively create, configure, test, deploy, and monitor data integration pipelines. We took into account your feedback to enable functional, performance, and security improvements to the visual tools. Jump To: [01:41] Demo Start For more information:Enhance productivity using Azure Data Facto...

Jenny Hunter joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Automation, which has seen several new improvements including support for Python 2, the ability to run against local Linux machines, the ability to run against any Azure VM with no setup (Run Command), and native Azure alert integration. Jump To: [03:27] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation - Cloud Automation Service overviewAzure Aut...

Did you know that Buffalo has plugins for Azure? In this episode, Martin Strobel joins Erik St. Martin to demo building a Go app with Buffalo and deploying it to Azure App Service. Jump To: [01:20] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure plugin for Buffalo GitHub repoBuffalo plugins listAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceCreate a free account (Azure)Go on Azure series:Part...

Messaging services are key components of all microservices-based architectures. David Justice (Sr. Software Engineer) joins Erik St. Martin to show you some of the options for messaging services on Azure, including demos on using them with Go apps. Jump To: [06:26] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceCreate a free account (Azure)Go on Azure ...

Joel Hendrix (Sr. Software Engineer) and Erik St. Martin walk you through the Azure SDK for Go, showing how you can build apps that interact with and manage Azure services. Jump To: [01:31] Demo Start  For more information:Go on AzureAzure SDK for Go GitHub repoInstall the Azure SDK for Go docsAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceDemo repo on GitHub (jhendrixMSFT/c9demo1)Create a free...

Josh Gavant (Sr. Program Manager) joins Erik St. Martin to talk about cloud-native Go apps. Azure offers a whole host of services that Go developers can use to build apps with strong security and scalability. For example, see how Josh implements strong authentication with Azure AD, adds caching with Redis Cache, stores any kind of data on Azure Storage, and sends messages and queues jobs with Serv...

Josh Gavant (Sr. Program Manager) joins Erik St. Martin to show you how to run your Go apps in a managed environment with Azure Web Apps. For larger applications, AKS offers a fully-managed Kubernetes cluster for any app and service. Jump To: [02:40] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overviewAzure App Service - Web Apps overviewAzure for Go developers - Tuto...

Cloud Developer Advocates Jessica Deen and Erik St. Martin show you how to get started with DevOps using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Go developers. Learn how to use the code you already have on GitHub, connect it to VSTS, and then build CI/CD pipelines to deploy your Go apps to Kubernetes on Azure. You'll also learn how you can get started with DevOps Projects on Azure, which will take...

Ramya Achutha Rao (Sr. Software Engineer) joins Erik St. Martin to show you how to build Go apps with Visual Studio Code. She will be using the Go extension for VS Code which provides smart code completion, integrated debugging and a whole lot more. In the end, still using VS Code, she'll create a Docker container for the app that is ready to be pushed to the cloud. Jump To: [00:50] Demo Start For...

Ultan Kinahan joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Azure Stack is an Azure consistent cloud platform that you can place where you need it, regardless of connectivity. It provides several key advantages to your cloud strategy, edge/disconnected capabilities, addresses governance and sovereignty concerns, and the ability to run PaaS services on premises. Jump To: [09:36] Demo Start For more informat...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Data Factory (ADF) integration with Azure Monitor, which enables you to route your data factory metrics to Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. Get the Azure Data Factory Analytics Management Solution service pack from the Azure marketplace. NOTE  Throughout this episode there are multiple references to Operations Management Suite; however, this s...

Mark Jacobs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Microsoft's internal enterprise increases compliance and creates a more trusted cloud environment using the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure (AzSK). Learn how Microsoft's DevOps teams leverage this tool to continuously keep their cloud applications secure and how you can use the same tool to reduce risk in your environment. Jump To: [06:25] Demo Start Fo...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how you can associate a GitHub repository (public & enterprise) to your Azure Data Factory for collaboration, versioning, source control. Jump To: [00:35] Demo Start For more information, see:Azure Data Factory Visual tools now support GitHub integration (blog post)Visual authoring in Azure Data Factory - Author with GitHub integration (docs)Azure...